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Thursday, 16 February 2012

Recently, whilst searching for new books by any of my favourite authors, I discovered something unexpected. Some very well known adult fiction writers are now writing specifically for young adults!

I was very impressed, all the more so when I went and read their new books. Not only did they keep the 'it' factor that made their books intriguing to me, but they also managed to rejig their stories to a younger audience, without talking down.

So if you are interested in a new author for a young adult reader, let me introduce you to two established adult novelists, with something new and fresh in young adult fiction.

Harlan Coben - Shelter
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is
forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools,
where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new
girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy
underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.

Ever
since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup
with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular
kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them
together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding
and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a
way to save it!